Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

The<a href="http://www.inhabitat.com/milan-furniture-fair"> Milan Furniture Fair</a> is in full swing and Inhabitat is on the scene scouring the city for all the latest and greatest green designs. The first stop on our tour is "Design Bonanza", a student show organized by the Industrial Design Department of the <a href="http://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/">Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design</a>, Israel’s oldest institute of higher learning. With an inspiring array of products on display, Design Bonanza explores the true experimental spirit of modern design. From lifesaving objects to a contemporary use of natural textiles, these student designs reinterpret existing materials in an innovative and sustainable way. Professor Haim Parnas, head of the Bachelor of Design program explains, “We believe that eco-sustainability should be in the toolbox of the designers, and in the way they think. Our products speak about the relation of man with the environment, and how they co-exist, using design as the medium.” Jump ahead for our top picks from this spectacular student show!

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Rachel Boxnboim’s Alice is an interesting mix of materials, which infuses cloth and ceramics, producing interesting shapes, textures and colors.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Red Beard by Shai Lanir is a range of fashionable helmets made of hardened wool in epoxy material, with a removable interior sewn from Cordura and cotton, and lined with polyethylene foam combined with polypropylene.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Craft Oriented Design by Rami Tareef studies the hybridization between crafts and modern design, creating chairs using minimum material.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Preserved is an innovative project by Baruch Mogilevsky which keeps meat dried and preserved, making it edible for years. This is done by making a rigid capsule of high pressured salt, the hardness of which keeps the meat sealed.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Lint by Shelly Simcha aims to give a new life to the lint collected in the dryer to create a blanket by composing the fibers.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Blitz.k11 by Shy Bernsthein combines wood and brass, highlighting the significance of each material.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

MudHut by Daniel Narunsky is a template of tools used to create an oven out of mud. The pot, shovel and spatula can be used to shape mud in the form of an oven, signifying creation out of existing materials.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Scissors Glove by Liran Elbaz enables a much more intuitive relationship between humans and products.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

In Needle and Thread, Hadas Ilani examined various methods of sewing pine needles into shoes, giving dried pine a new life.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

WATCHIT by Mel Burgman provides a ‘reality check’ by enabling people to record live happenings and create an online community where it can be shared.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Arm created by Roi Vapsi Yanai is a lamp created by paper, enabling different shapes and curves.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Experimenting with different materials, Frozen was developed by Lee Rosman by mixing iron powder with various casting materials. Their reaction causes the iron powder to freeze in different places, creating beautiful patterns.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Dovecote by Alon Blumenzeig explores the relationship between a product and its natural surroundings, creating a light source by industrially compressing bird feed. As the birds feed on it, the product starts to be exposed.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

Here is "Glass Knives for the Post-Modern Neanderthal" by Itmar Foguel. The piece reminisces on the art of breaking rock and glass into tools, as was done by the prehistoric man. It shows how man can manually create survival tools from broken bottles without any raw materials or employing an industrial process.

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Design Bonanza by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design at Ventura Lambrate

The Milan Furniture Fair is in full swing and Inhabitat is on the scene scouring the city for all the latest and greatest green designs. The first stop on our tour is "Design Bonanza", a student show organized by the Industrial Design Department of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel’s oldest institute of higher learning. With an inspiring array of products on display, Design Bonanza explores the true experimental spirit of modern design. From lifesaving objects to a contemporary use of natural textiles, these student designs reinterpret existing materials in an innovative and sustainable way. Professor Haim Parnas, head of the Bachelor of Design program explains, “We believe that eco-sustainability should be in the toolbox of the designers, and in the way they think. Our products speak about the relation of man with the environment, and how they co-exist, using design as the medium.” Jump ahead for our top picks from this spectacular student show!